Grace Morgan Pardo

Grace Morgan Pardo is a Chilean Canadian painter and performance artist. Grace studied Art History and Literature at McGill University in Montreal and at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, in Mexico City. In 2008 she moved to London to study for a MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. In 2012 she went on to do The Drawing Year at The Prince's Drawing School (now the Royal Drawing School). She has performed and exhibited in Mexico City, Toronto, Montreal, London, Glasgow, Kassel and Berlin. Grace is strongly influenced by art history, literature, folklore and religious iconography. Esoteric and literary references thread through her work, simultaneously revealing and concealing a tapestry of apparent and coded narratives. Grace currently lives and works in Montreal.